Enhance Pandora with wireless streaming and last.fm scrobbling.
PandoraJam enables you to enjoy the popular Pandora.com radio service on your Mac desktop. Easily stream music wirelessly, record audio for playback on iPods, and submit tracks to Last.fm and Twitter. Desktop integration via Growl notifications, instant messenger updates and keyboard shortcuts. Support for Apple Remote. Wireless streaming requires an Airport Express.
Doesn't work. That's a big one. Hasn't worked for a long time. I was a paid customer and they never responded to my support requests. Now I see that they shut down: http://www.bitcartel.com/thejam/
Summary
Boo.
64kpbs bit rate!? Sounds like AM radio!
ryansouthard
Pros
It's easy to use. It labels tracks, includes album cover art.
Cons
It records in 64 kbps. This wasn't always the case. Whether you're an audiophile or totally casual listener, there's a very discernible difference in sound quality between a file at 192kbps (which Pandora One subscribers get) versus 64kbps.
Summary
I used this program and recommended it to others until it went strictly to 64kbps recording. I've stopped using it altogether.
not working for now
postjosh
Pros
until nov 21 the beta 2.0 version worked great.
Cons
it stopped working and bitcartel isn't posting any explanation or answering emails. lots of people are wasting time troubleshooting this. why don't they put an explanation on there blog or twitter feed? will it get fixed?
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it's a great program the it not working and the developer ain't talking. i hope they get it fixed or at least let us know what the heck is going on...<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Dec 5, 2011<p/>appears to be fixed now with version 570. they finally returned my support request via email.
Flawless recording from any account and stations.
mknibbs
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Records everything that did not earn a thumbs down in a session. Audio quality surprisingly good - as good as iTunes ?
Cons
Sometimes when you launch the full browser you'll inadvertently start another audio stream - does not seem to affect recording.
Summary
Great way to build related but sporadic music collections very cost effectively.
WOW! A great value!
GCG1000
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Easy to use, especially for an eclectic music audiophile like me! A great value!
Cons
Needs an EQ!
Summary
Great value for any listener of music on the Mac
A great application for use with Pandora
Kyle Richardson
Pros
- Recording of songs
- Great aesthetics
- Advanced functionality
Cons
- No minimized version
Summary
A must have for those who use Pandora, whether they own a Pandora One account or not. It makes recording and organizing Pandora music so easy that it is more than worth the 15 dollars.
So well done!
jreffner
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Wow, this is a killer app and extremely well thoughout! The attention to detail rocks.
Aspects I like are as follows:
- no browser needed
- small enough to be out of the way, but large enough to have all of the web based features
- recording!!!!!
- thumbs up recordings automatically kept in a folder; thumbs down recordings not kept at all
- ability to automatically add to iTunes or not (my daughter does, I don't)
- automatically gets the cover art
- can edit stations etc.
One thing I don't care for (probably not PandoraJam's fault):
- 64 bit rate recordings
However, I assume that they are broadcast in this manner, or that this is done to prevent "issues". Either way, I'm really impressed with this app, and strongly recommend it to all others. His Comic book app is great too.
The only issue is that I don't know what to suggest to the poor Windows users who can't use PandoraJam. Well, aside from, "go buy a Mac".
Fantastic App!
cipherswarm
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Been using since finals week for ambient beats from Pandora. Works well on my iBook G4, though Pandora's Flash-based interface is a memory and CPU hog.<br>
Saving to iTunes is a great little feature, and scrobbling the played tracks to Last.fm is <b>awesome</b>.
I submitted a quick suggestion to the developer for a different way of handling Last.fm submissions, and got back a response the next day. Just all-around great app.
Awesome-Had to Buy!
mk583k
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I saw this product on the MacSanta page and decided to give it a try. After five minutes in demo mode, I had to purchase it. What an awesome product :) Works Great!
Awesome-Had to Buy!
mk583k
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I saw this product on the MacSanta page and decided to give it a try. After five minutes in demo mode, I had to purchase it. What an awesome product :) Works Great!